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Title: Dean Spanley

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Toa Fraser

Cast: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfitt, Art Malik, Ramon Tikaram

Release: 2008-12-12

Runtime: 100

Plot: Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.



'Only the closed mind is certain'.

It's wonderful, serious but so funny and droll.
 
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